Shante

Where Shante comes from

Shante hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1964
    First appearance
    #6,767 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1971
    Shante Carver born
    American football and basketball player
  3. 1985
    Peak, #549
    361 babies named Shante — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1991
    Shante Evans born
    American-Slovenian basketball player
  5. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,170.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Shante Evans · American-Slovenian basketball player, born 1991
  • Shante Carver · American football and basketball player, born 1971

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.